Senator honored for his efforts toward ridding the world of nuclear weapons

Dec. 4, 2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Richard Lugar received the Defense Department's highest civilian award on Monday along with personal praise from the president for his efforts to secure and destroy weapons of mass destruction after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The honors came during a National Defense University symposium on the 20-year-old Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, which President Barack Obama called one of the nation's smartest and most successful national security programs.

"We can say that the course of history changed for the better because these two men helped ...